sculpt

English

Etymology

From French sculpter, from Latin sculpere (“to cut out, carve in stone”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Verb

sculpt (third-person singular simple present sculpts, present participle sculpting, simple past and past participle sculpted)

1. (transitive) To form by sculpture.

   They sculpted a statue out of clay.

2. (intransitive) To work as a sculptor.

   What do you do?

   I used to box, but now I sculpt.

Derived terms

• resculpt

Related terms

• sculptor
• sculpture

Translations

be a sculptor

• Catalan: esculpir (ca)
• Esperanto: skulpti
• French: sculpter (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: bildhauerisch gestalten, bildhauerisch tätig sein, formen (de), meißeln (de)
• Latin: sculpō
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• Maori: whakairo
• Norman: stchulpter
• Russian: ваять (ru) (vajatʹ), лепить (ru) (lepitʹ)
• Spanish: esculpir (es)
• Swedish: skulptera (sv)
• Turkish: oymak (tr), yontmak (tr)

Further reading

• “sculpt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.